I am a millennial wife. I adore your site. I wonder if you read the article in this week’s Wall Street Journal on love’s new timetable for millennials: WSJ Love and Work on a Timetable.
The story focuses on the inherent geographic and temporal challenges of maintaining dual careers for modern couples. I think the more interesting, but scarcely remarked on angle is the couple’s lengthy courtship. I identify with this story because if there is one signature feature of my generation’s courtship rites (and I am limiting my analysis to my relatively privileged circle of college-educated professional peers) it is the long road from the first date to the altar.
THE murder trial of a black convicted felon who had once been sentenced to over 90 years in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping and who is accused of stabbing the middle-aged, divorced white woman who took him in to her home and her bedroom, began this week, almost two full years after Sarajane Hakopian was found dead of stab wounds. This long delay is common even when there is very little doubt of who committed a crime. The case is part of an apparent minor trend of divorced or unattached middle-aged white women who become involved with nonwhite men who later kill them. In December, Nedenia Post Dye, the 46-year-old granddaughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post, was murdered on the Caribbean island of Roatan, where she operated a luxury spa. A 25-year-old musician named Lenin Roberto Arana was found in bloody clothes in Dye’s car after the murder and is charged with the crime. According to The Daily Mail, Arana told local reporters, “I’m innocent. Nedenia was like a mother to me. She protected me.”
As with Hakopian, Dye’s case seems to have been some merging of sexual and maternal roles, with the white woman attempting to nurture her black lover into normalcy. With its denial of race differences and its push for the independence of women, leaving middle-aged women alone and looking for love, the modern world encourages such delusions.
Nedenia Post Dye
Lenin Roberto Arana
The case of Hakopian was discussed at VFR in February, 2012. Lawrence Auster wrote:
When I began reading the below article from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, I hadn’t noticed the small captionless photo of a man at the top of the article and was not sure if the race of the suspect was known. Then, as the article unfolded, telling me, bit by intensifying bit, in a kind of liberal self-parody, more and more about the obviously dangerous nature of the man whom the good-hearted hippie-like divorced 44-year-old mother-of-two Sarajane Hakopian had welcomed into her life, I figured he sounded like a black man, except that his name, Brian Mallory, didn’t sound at all black. So, believe it or not, I wasn’t sure that he was black, even though the reader who had sent me the article had said he was black (it’s easy to be wrong about these things, and I try, most of the time, not to jump prematurely to conclusions). (more…)
I thought you might appreciate this article. It’s about a subculture of people into Rockabilly music who live as if it were the 1950s, without those pesky traditional 1950s morals. I have known some Rockabilly folks like the ones pictured in this article, and while they are perfectly nice people, they are almost all howling liberals. They surround themselves with all the fashions, furnishings and gadgets of the 50s and will even use the lingo. But that’s where it stops. It is all done with a sense of irony. (more…)
OBAMA has made a habit of delivering an address praising Roe v. Wade on the anniversary of the decision. Today, on the 41st anniversary, he said that abortion helps women "fulfill their dreams." It's amazing that people think of Obama as pro-woman. Since Roe v. Wade, black illegitimacy alone has skyrocketed to over 70 percent. Marriage is almost every woman's dream. Abortion has not exactly been empowering for women. The most powerful thing a woman can do is give life to a human being. What dream could exceed that? The abortion movement has always denied that women have other options, the chief of them today being adoption. America will only see an end to the well-funded, legal, government-supported machinery of abortion, and the coming pharmaceutical age of abortion, when it rejects the idea that elected politicians or appointed judges or the people themselves should govern morality and that God has no political rights at all.
ARS ORANDI, a Catholic website devoted to art, the Holy Mass and liturgical contemplation, was one of the most beautiful blogs on the Internet. It sadly vanished a couple of weeks ago. There has been no public word from the author, David Werling, to explain its disappearance. The archives from December 8th and earlier are available here. I am very grateful to Mr. Werling for creating and maintaining his site, a lovely tribute to the highest form of prayer that exists. It must have been extremely time-consuming to keep the site running.
IF you were the very first black First Lady in America, you would think you would at all times stress and foster the dignity of the black woman. After all, the dignity of black women -- their dignity as mothers and wives -- is far more important to the health of children than whether they eat vegetables -- or rather a normal and healthy life for children inevitably flows from the dignity of the mother. And even a poor woman can possess dignity. Michelle Obama has not done much to help the ordinary black woman acquire a sense of her own vital importance.
WHEN OBAMA said he would bridge the racial divide, he apparently meant that he would introduce a whole new level of racial bullying. A recent case is that of Ally Bank, which was accused by Eric Holder’s office of discriminating against blacks in auto lending. According to Investor’s Business Daily, the case against Ally was shockingly weak. Prosecutors never documented or researched the creditworthiness of loan applicants who were allegedly overcharged. “That’s right, they never looked at credit scores, down payments, debt or other key risk-related factors banks consider to set interest rates. Not for blacks, or for supposedly “similarly situated” whites.” (more…)
Today, the news out of Virginia is that former Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife have been indicted on 14 federal corruption charges and face decades in prison (although will probably get away with far less.)
Gov. McDonnell was a popular, well-liked governor. When he ran for Governor, the media publicized his university thesis, which spoke intelligently (although I have only skimmed it) about issues facing the family. Most controversially, he criticized Griswald and argued for an end to no-fault divorce, alongside more standard Republican proposals like ending abortion and promoting school vouchers. He won in the 2009 landslide by running away from his original positions on these matters and instead, speaking about bread-and-butter issues like relieving traffic congestion.
The almost hilariously over-the-top narcissism in the way Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis speaks about herself, and the passivity of her ‘husband’ who paid her way through Harvard Law School and was then left holding the bag with two children to take care of – she left him quite literally the next day after the tuition loan was paid off – is a scathing indictment of the qualities liberal women admire and seek to cultivate in themselves, and how liberal men have been conditioned to accept that their role in life is to enable supposedly self-empowered women who in reality use men to achieve their ambitions.
Davis is being challenged for discrepancies in her life story. In the article at The Dallas News, a political colleague of hers is quoted as saying:
“She’s going to find a way, and she’s going to figure out a way to spin herself in a way that grabs at the heart strings. A lot of it isn’t true about her, but that’s just us who knew her. But she’d be a good governor.” (more…)
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When my father was a boy, there wasn’t much in the way of health care, not a tenth of what is available today. Most surgeries were still done in your own home. Antiseptic methods had not yet been well established. There was no income tax, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no Social Security, no health insurance.
A 1919 study revealed that four times more money was lost in wages for missed work than was spent on whatever ailed you. Why would anyone buy health insurance? They didn’t; they bought “sickness” insurance instead, like today’s disability insurance, which arguably is under utilized. They also bought a good bit of burial insurance. These were risks that people could understand and calculate.
In 1940, about 10 million of our 132 million were enrolled in a health insurance plan. By 1948, when I was born, there were almost 60 million enrolled. By 1960, 130 million of our 180 million were enrolled.
BY judicial fiat, New Mexico has become the fifth state in America in which assisted suicide is legal. Aja Riggs, 49, was one of the plaintiffs in a case which successfully overturned the state’s assisted suicide statute. She has advanced uterine cancer. She was backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the well-funded pro-suicide organization Compassion and Choices, an offshoot of the Hemlock Society. Second Judicial Judge Nan Nash ruled earlier this week that under the state constitution, terminally ill citizens have a right to receive help in ending their lives. Once again, the most extreme and inhuman views become institutionalized by a judge. She wrote:
“This court cannot envision a right more fundamental, more private or more integral to the liberty, safety and happiness of a New Mexican than the right of a competent, terminally ill patient to choose aid in dying,” the judge wrote.
Got that? Suicide is “integral” to safety and happiness.
WHAT can be said about Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent chastising and threatening of Nigeria for its new anti-sodomy laws except that the U.S. Government is a great force for evil in the world. As the blogger Mundabor points out, it’s interesting that Kerry has not publicly condemned Saudi Arabia even though sodomy is a capital offense there. “People everywhere deserve to live in freedom and equality. No one should face violence or discrimination for who they are or who they love,” said Kerry this week. Everyone deserves freedom and equality except those who don’t particularly want to see their relatives and friends pulled into the land of AIDS, drug use, suicide and homosexual promiscuity.
READ about the latest in the ongoing saga of the Wunderlich family in Germany at Lifesitenews. The Wunderlichs have been forced to send their children to public school and denied legal custody so that they might obtain visas to move. The judge who ruled on an aspect of the case last month called homeschooling a “straitjacket.” Good heavens, what does he think human beings did before modern schools were invented? Most of the European monarchs never went to school.
A French black comedian, Dieudonné, has been censored by the government for allegedly inciting anti-Semitism with a crude gesture, now known as the “quenelle,” which some say resembles a “reverse Nazi salute,” a rather far-fetched interpretation of what it appears to mean. His tour was banned as a result, as Galliawatchreports.
Dieudonné has come to symbolize, for a certain segment of the French population roughly between the ages of 20 and 30, the elevation of the Holocaust, or Shoah, to a state religion and the demonization of French patriotism, writes Dian Johnstone:
By placing Auschwitz as the most significant event of recent history, various writers and speakers justify by default the growing power of the European Union as necessary replacement for Europe’s inherently “bad” nations. Never again Auschwitz! Dissolve the nation-states into a technical bureaucracy, free of the emotional influence of citizens who might vote incorrectly. Do you feel French? Or German? You should feel guilty about it – because of Auschwitz. (more…)
From the British Library’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts.
SOPHIA writes:
I wrote to you in the past (see here and here) regarding my strong desire to become a housewife. As you know, I’m young, (miserably) in college, and had until recently little hope of meeting someone whom I could marry, i.e., with the same traditionalist views. Of course, similar-minded individuals are not too difficult to find on the Internet; so, to keep things concise, I’m rather convinced we’ve found each other. For about the last half year, I have been in intimate communication with a young man (my age, same year of college) with whom I have striking compatibility. We want the same things: a traditionalist Catholic home, wherein our large number of children are schooled, to live as self-sufficiently as possible. We dream of eventually owning a farm, but looking at things realistically makes that appear to be in the far-off future. We are not taking our future lightly; our conversations most often revolve around how we will live out our married state.
INthe entry about the social decline of celibacy, Lou Hanson writes:
Thanks for your piece about happy virgins. One of the odder things about being single today is that one is so often assumed to be ‘gay!’ I am 60, and would be far more tolerated and approved of if I were a homosexual woman, or in a sexual, unmarried state with a man! But being single is seen as so odd and unnatural. And, I have to say that the Catholic parish down the street from me does not feel very welcoming either — I love all the young families, happy couples, I do, but the older parish ten miles down the road feels better to me – still many young families, happy couples, but a nearly equal number of singles. (more…)
